美学三题

人类审美个性与其普遍性文化功能是德国古典美学两主题 ,其间存在的逻辑矛盾与历史张力以及其审美个性研究的不够深入 ,都深刻地影响了 2 0世纪中国美学。以宗教为参照 ,可以深化审美个性研究 ,则审美是人类追求即时性感性精神愉悦的活动。审美感性是物质感性、具体感性和即时感性 ,这些决定了审美乃人类精神生活起点、大众文化之典型代表。审美是最世俗的人类精神活动 ,美学则是人类感性精神现象学 ,这当是当代美学基础理论研究的确当起点。在拓展人类精神世界的深度和广度上 ,审美较科学、宗教、哲学均远为逊色。     

民族生态审美叙事中的隐喻交合功能

民族生态审美叙事的关键是科技隐喻与民族生态隐喻交合互动 ,它在正义性原则指导下可保证民族生存与文化具有可持续生存指标 ,一种吸收变革而不丧失认同性活力的能指 ,从而使人与自然及民族间的交往灵活地进行。进而 ,在科技隐喻与民族生态隐喻等“多重隐喻”的功能交合辐射的过程中 ,人类超越自身而形成把握实在意义的方式与前景 ,最终形成对科技导致的生态危机与民族冲突的超越。     

论公安教育的审美需要

公安教育的审美需要与思想政治教育同样重要,首先公安教育的目的是培养合格的人民警察。在治安形势严峻的今天,人民警察的审美需要也就是公安教育的重要内容;其次审美教育有助于人民警察深入的了解各种犯罪的内在生成因素;第三,审美教育对培养人民警察健全的人格有着不可或缺的重要作用。     

《申报》女性广告:女性形象、现代性想像以及消费本质

本文对1928-1937年之间《申报》女性广告进行了内容分析,并从日常市民生活与现代性体验和想象、女性形象与社会角色定位以及女性广告的消费文化特质三方面进行了讨论。文章认为,《申报》女性广告文化作为现代广告的典型代表,不仅是报业史上探索媒介经营的先驱和范本,也参与了当时上海都会文化和城市气质的构建,体现了当时现代性转型中的上海大众的日常审美意识。这不仅是二、三十年代海派文化的一个充满意趣的缩影或曰截面,还与当代审美文化视野中的广告存在着共通与契合之处。     

“发乎情,止乎情”--从“陆王心学”到明清之际的“启蒙美学”

从儒家的“发乎情,止乎礼”与道家的“发乎情,止乎游”,历经了禅宗的“发乎情,止乎觉”,明清之际启蒙美学主旋律变为“发乎情,止乎情”。它代表着中国美学在与“西天”佛教文化对话后的成熟,距离最终的突破,距离“五四”之际王国维、鲁迅的探索,乃至距离后来的从20世纪80年代崛起的奠基于“万物一体仁爱”新哲学观基础上的情本境界论生命美学的探索,都只有一步之遥。     

接受美学立体思维与思想政治教育

姚斯接受美学是以读者为中心的文学理论,"期待视野"是其核心概念。借鉴姚斯接受美学的立体思维方法对思想政治教育接受进行分析,思想政治教育接受呈现整体性、有机性、动态性的特征。优化思想政治教育接受应尊重接受主体的"期待视野",提高传导者的思想政治教育水平,重视接受介体的良性合力共建,强化对接受客体的把关。     

Listening to color: a set of propositions on pain as feminist aesthetic

This performative text asks whether it is possible to imagine an antisocial feminist aesthetic that does not invoke the wounded body. Its form – numbered propositions that engage with critical theory, literature, and memoir – riffs on that of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, a key interlocutor for this question of aestheticizing embodied pain. How does Nelson’s genealogy of blue model a methodology for a “queer genealogy of femininity,” to borrow Jack Halberstam’s term? How does looking at color in this way offer an approach to narrating trauma, one that displaces the primacy of the visual? Turning to the work of Christina Crosby, Toni Morrison, Fred Moten, and José Esteban Muñoz, as well as drawing upon the author’s experience as a volunteer for a peer listening hotline, this essay considers the implications of “listening to color” for minoritarian knowledge formations and feminist praxis.     

The nonarrival of black freedom (c. 12.6.84)

This article seeks to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Saidiya V. Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America through a series of meditations on questions of time, embodied performance, the political concept of emancipation, and Oliver L. Jackson’s painting, Untitled 12.6.84, which graces the cover of this seminal work. This effort to recall Hartman’s argument regarding the nonevent of emancipation moves in the service of developing an understanding of the nonarrival of black freedom as a conceptual frame for addressing the recursive and untimely dimensions of black self-making. Ultimately, this article argues that Scenes of Subjection allows us to glimpse the making of worlds within the historical archive that fall outside of the normative horizons and expectations of political emancipation. Neither durable nor everlasting, neither verifiable nor guaranteed, such worlds take shape and dissolve within the mysterious rapport between the “could be” and the “not yet” and leave traces on the broken flesh of the black body.     

Body and experiment – reflecting Kawabata Yasunari's counter-aesthetics

Abstract

From his earliest works, Kawabata, known as an explicit aestheticist, deals in his works with flawed and disabled bodies in contrast to beautiful ones, evoking feelings of revulsion, awkwardness, disgust and premonitions of decay and death. The dynamism created out of these tensions and ruptures in the aestheticized world is scrutizined as hidden counter-aesthetics through questions such as: Which kinds of impairments are to be observed? Can they be classified according to grades? Are there gender specificities? How are these tensions and ruptures organized, and which categories (semantic, biological, political, moral) are concerned? Which narratorial and other functions are served through the counter-image of the flawed (impaired) body? And finally, how do the findings from these investigations into the flipside, the ‘Other’ of Kawabata's aesthetic universe, contribute to complementary or alternative ways of reading and understanding his literature? In a final section, Kawabata's treatment of female bodies as a site of experimenting with extreme situations of passivity and agency is highlighted, challenging more conventional readings of this and other works. The works discussed are from a deliberately broad chronological and generic range, including canonical and popular works. They range from the newspaper novels ‘Utsukushii!’ (1927) and ‘Maihime’ (1950/1), the novel ‘Senbazuru’ (1952) to the stories and palm-of-the-hand stories ‘Ningen no ashioto’ (1925),’Izu no odoriko’ (1926), ‘Mekura to shōjo’ (1928), ‘Utsukushiki haka’ (1929) ‘Hokuro no tegami’ (1940), ‘Sasabune’ (1950), and, in the final section, ‘Kataude’ (1963/4) and ‘Nemureru bijo’ (1960/1).     

Noucentisme's “arbitrary” nature in the Mont-roig landscapes of Joan Miró (1918–1922)

The purpose of this article is to discuss the development of Joan Miró's aesthetics between 1915 and the early 1920s, and to offer an interpretation of a series of landscapes that he painted between 1918 and 1922, by highlighting their similarities with some of the landscapes described by Catalan writer Josep Pla in his Obra completa. Both Miró's and Pla's landscapes are situated within the context of Noucentisme and, more particularly, of Noucentisme's classicist aesthetics as defined by Eugeni d'Ors in his Glosari.